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Percent Widowed. Among Older Australians, Malaysians, and Croatians, Circa 2000. Australia, 2001 Malaysia, 2000 Croatia, 2000. Age. Age. Age. Source: Compiled by the U.S. Census Bureau from national sources. Notes on Percent Widowed.
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Percent Widowed Among Older Australians, Malaysians, and Croatians, Circa 2000 Australia, 2001 Malaysia, 2000 Croatia, 2000 Age Age Age Source: Compiled by the U.S. Census Bureau from national sources.
Notes on Percent Widowed • For both men and women, the proportion married decreases with older age and the proportion widowed increases. • In almost every society, older men are more likely to be married and older women are more likely to be widowed. Gender differences in marital status reflect the interplay of several factors, for example, women live longer than men; women tend to marry men older than themselves, which, combined with the sex difference in life expectancy, increases the chance that a woman’s husband will die before she does; and older widowed men have higher remarriage rates than older widowed women in many countries, often as a function of cultural norms.